Imac rejects some dvds

For some reason my imac has started to reject dvds, pradominantly games.
For the most part, everything's fine, for example- it'll play lego starwars and a couple of other games
but spits out black and white 2, sims 3 and force unleashed.
I checked the requirements and everything should be fine, particuarly black and white 2 (but my imac apparently really hates that one)
Anyway, about the mac:
Mac os x
version 10.6.8
2.66 GHz intel core 2 duo
Mem 6GB 1067 MHz DDR3
video card mem- 256 MB
Chipset- NVDIA GeForce 94000
I can understand it refusing to work for games like the sims, which historically has issues with macs but some games should work fine just like the others.
If it's a problem with my disc drive, why is it so picky? Why hasn't it just flat out broke? And if this is the case, what would be the best way to resolve this issue without spending money I don't have?
It's an iMac 9,1 if that helps.
Cheers if anyone has any advice!

I have yeah, unfortunately it didn't work- gave my mac a whole go over in hopes it might solve the issue but it didn't.

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